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Föstudagur, 8. desember 2023

Öryggisráð Sameinuðu þjóðanna gripur til Örþrifaráða

Atkvæðagreiðsla er í kvöld í Öryggisráði Sameinuðu þjóðannas um tafarlaust vopnhlé á Gasa.

Antonio Quters sendi Öryggisráðinu formlegt bréf þar sem þess er krafist að Öryggisráðið beiti sér af fullri ákveðni í málinu og krefjast vopnahlés með eftirfylgni.

Slík bréf eru afar fátíð og undirstrikar það að mati framkvæmdastjórans sé verið skipulega að útrýma palestínsku þjóðinni á Gasa.

Þetta stríð er nú rekið á ábyrgð Bandaríkjanna sem hafa gert Israel að einu öflugasta herveldi heims.

Úrslit atkvæðagreiðslunnar Öryggisráðsins í kvöld er talin örlagarík bæði fyrir framtíð og stöðu Sameinuðu þjóðanna og fyrir líf, limi og tilurð palestínsku þjóðarinnar á Gasa

Maður hlýtur að velta fyrir sér hvernig Ísland og fulltrúar okkar þjóðar beita sér nú í málinu á vettvangi Sameinuðu þjóðanna

Hvar er "meðalhófið" í manndrápum á saklausum borgurum Palestínu sem utanaríkisráðherra taldi sig leita?.

Ísland hefur sjálfstæða rödd og á að beita henni nú af alvöru og undanbragðalaust . Látum í okkur heyra !

BBC: "Guterres: Hamas attacks can never justify the collective punishment of the Palestinian people

Antonio Guterres speaks during a United Nations Security Council meeting on Israel-Gaza conflict, 8 December 2023

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Antonio Guterres says the brutality of the 7 October attacks by Hamas on Israel does not absolve Israel of its own violations of humanitarian law.

He says that the people of Gaza are being told to move like human pinballs, without any of the basics for survival. “But nowhere in Gaza is safe,” he adds.

Guterres says that families have lost everything and have been sleeping on bare concrete floors, that there is a food crisis that most of the people in Gaza are starving.

He concludes that he “unreservedly condemns” Hamas’ 7 October attacks and calls for the immediate release of the Israeli hostages taken by Hamas.

“At the same time, the brutality perpetrated by Hamas can never justify the collective punishment of the Palestinian people,” he says.

Gaza vote a defining moment for United Nations
Nada Tawfik
Reporting from New York
This is one of those defining moments for the Security Council. To push them to demand an immediate ceasefire, the secretary general has invoked for the first time in his tenure a rarely used power granted to UN chiefs by the organisation’s charter.
Antonio Guterres will address council diplomats today in an open meeting after speaking with many leaders over the phone, including the US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, the UK Foreign Secretary David Cameron and several Arab ministers.
Arab and Islamic nations immediately responded to his letter with a draft resolution that will be voted on today.
The majority of the council has long supported an immediate ceasefire so all eyes will be on Israel’s ally, the United States. While they have not publicly stated whether they intend to exercise their veto again, they have signaled as much. The US’s position is that a resolution would not be “useful at this time”.
If the council is once again blocked from taking action from a permanent veto wielding member, it will raise the question, not for the first or last time, if the Security Council is fit for purpose.
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UN Security Council to vote on Gaza ceasefire call
The UN Security Council is due to meet in a few hours to vote on whether to call for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza.
It comes two days after UN chief Antonio Guterres took the unpredecented step of invoking Article 99 of the UN's charter.
No one in his role has done this in decades.
The move allows the secretary-general to bring to the council's attention "any matter which in his opinion may threaten the maintenance of international peace and security".
The United Arab Emirates has prepared a draft resolution that will be put to a vote, it needs at least nine votes in favour and no vetoes by the United States, Russia, China, France or Britain to pass.
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